#fiction

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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